ScreencastTeam video tutorials

[Phil Bull]

Hi Alan,

On Wed, 2009-07-22 at 10:42 +0100, Alan Pope wrote:
> > There a few teams that I can think of who might be interested in
> > collaborating on this. We should invite them to the next doc team
> > meeting, or we can have a meeting dedicated to discussing this.
> >
> 
> Agreed. When will that be? The wiki page is out of date.

How does meeting next Sunday (2nd of August) sound? I think we're
overdue a doc team meeting anyway.

> Whilst I agree that short format ones are beneficial for this specific
> task, there is still room for long-format shows, and they should not
> be dismissed when we are discussing screencasts in general.

What use cases do you see for the long-format screencasts? I don't think
that they would be appropriate for system docs integration, but how
might other UA people use them?

> Ok, we don't need a screencast that tells someone how to click the
> firefox icon, then another for how to click the evolution icon, that's
> taking it too far, but there's a happy medium. The original idea
> behind the screencast team was to create videos for very new users.
> People who may have never even seen Ubuntu before. I've had a lot of
> feedback from people telling me they felt more confident installing
> Ubuntu once they'd seen various parts of it in a video.

It would be interesting to collect some data on what new users struggle
with the most, so that we can concentrate on the most important stuff
first. If we do decide to integrate screencasts with the docs (which I
hope we will), I'd like to run with a limited set of screencasts and
evaluate how beneficial they are before we start attaching one to
everything.

Thanks,

Phil

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